Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance, 2nd edition shows students how to become effective producers and consumers of he...

The term Swahili describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and cri...

Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changin...

This text offers a succinct overview of the essential clinical applications of ultrasound in infertility management. It will be of benefit to estab...

Clinical Data Quality Checks for CDISC Compliance using SAS is the first book focused on identifying and correcting data quality and CDISC complian...

In this age of information, the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of data have become a fundamental part of professional life; nowhere mor...

Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations. Indeed, many countries have sought strategies to promote health and reduce he...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

A welcome and important contribution to a thankfully growing debate. Mental illness remains in some ways the last great taboo in our society, a tab...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by...

Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseas...

As evidenced by the anthrax attacks in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, a pathogen does not recognize geog...

While biomedical researchers may be able to follow instructions in the manuals accompanying the statistical software packages, they do not always h...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

Originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, this collection was timed to coincide with the publication of the new NICE...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Every consultant has pearls of wisdom they wish they could share with GPs: knowledge they have acquired from years of experience and evidence-based...

This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to ...

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy area...

The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement is the summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on...

More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experie...

Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive in...

Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. I...

The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more. This investment has contributed to meaningfu...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it affects veterans of all...